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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Why Facebook Makes Your Images Look Like Crap, and How to Fix It [feedly]

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Why Facebook Makes Your Images Look Like Crap, and How to Fix It
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If you use Facebook, you've probably uploaded a picture at some point. While Facebook is great for sharing, it also uses some pretty ruthless compression (compared to other sites, anyway) that makes your pictures look like crap. Here's how to prevent that from happening.

How Facebook Ruins Your Images

Facebook is huge. An estimated 350 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day. That's a lot of data for them to store, so to lighten the load, Facebook compresses your images. This makes them smaller in size, but it can also ruin image quality. Generally, this isn't a huge deal, but when an image gets passed around the internet, downloaded, shared, and reuploaded to a bunch of different services, it can get pretty nasty.

For example, let's take a look at this Strong Bad email screenshot. To get a sense of how bad the image compression can be, I uploaded the screenshot, downloaded the resulting file, and then re-uploaded the already compressed version. After five times through the upload process, this is what we got:

As you can see, it doesn't take much for the image to start looking crappy. Strong Bad's whole head looks blocky, and the ketchup all over his computer is even messier than it was before. In my testing, I found that this was around the threshold that Facebook's compression alone didn't make much of a difference.

You can also see how this compression affects text as well. In the image below, you can see that any area around text starts becoming blocky, noisy, and faded:

Of course, the problem compounds when an already crummy image is taken out of Facebook, modified slightly, and re-uploaded to go through the whole process again. This happens on the internet all the time. Person A says something funny on Twitter. Person B takes a screenshot and uploads it to Facebook. Person C then downloads that image, shares it to Tumblr and adds a comment. Person D takes a new screenshot of the image including the comment and sends it through Facebook Messenger to Person E, who then saves the picture, uploads it to their own Facebook timeline. At this point, it's gone through Facebook's compression three times, with a screenshot of a screenshot thrown in. It will likely look like crap.

Of course, Facebook isn't the only site that compresses images. Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and virtually any other site where you can upload pictures will apply some level of compression. However, Facebook's compression seems to be more ruthless than most sites. And once an image is compressed to Facebook's level, it may be too small to trigger another site's compression. However, things like Instagram filters or screenshots can make the image bigger, while including the old imperfections, introduce new ones, and start the process all over again.

When everyone is doing this every time they want to move a picture from one place to another, pictures can start to look like garbage really quickly. When you upload your own photos, they might look okay the first time, but the more a picture gets passed around the internet, the more its quality can deteriorate.

What You Can Do About It

Unfortunately, you can't turn off Facebook's compression. However, there are a few ways to minimize the effect. In some cases, you can tweak your photos before uploading them to Facebook. You can also use separate hosting to share photos without ever touching Facebook's servers.

Learn How to Use Facebook's Own Tools

While Facebook will always apply compression to your uploaded photos, there are some ways to limit the effect. Here are some of the key tips if you decide to upload to Facebook directly:

Upload pictures that are at least 2048 pixels wide: According to Facebook's guidelines, 2048px is the ideal width for high resolution images. Your images will still be compressed, but if they're uploaded at a higher resolution to begin with, the effect may not be as noticeable. This is best used for photographs.Create "High Quality" albums when uploading: Facebook has a high quality option, but it's buried. To enable it, create a new photo album. While you're creating the album, check the box that says "High Quality." Now, any photos that are uploaded to this album will be stored in larger, less compress file sizes.Crop cover photos to 851px by 315px: Also per Facebook's own recommendations, cover photos should ideally be 851px by 315px. Anything smaller than this and your cover photo will look stretched and pixelated.

You can't eliminate Facebook's compression entirely, but if you're taking the time to upload your own photos, you may as well make the best of them.

Share the Best Version of the Photo You Can

Not every photo you share will be a photo you edit on your own. Sometimes you just want to share something funny or interesting you found online. If you're going to do that, do yourself (and everyone else) a favor and share the best version you can. Here are some ways to do that:

Share direct links: If you found an image elsewhere online, share a link to the image itself, rather than uploading it to your page. Not only is this faster and easier, but it will likely be better quality, and in most cases Facebook will embed the image at full size anyway. You can quickly get a link to nearly any photo online by right-clicking it and selecting "Copy image URL."Use alternative hosting: If you want to share a photo you've taken yourself without compressing it, you can upload it to a third-party hosting site like Imgur. Imgur uses lossless compression for any photo smaller than 5MB. When you share the link to that photo, Facebook will embed the higher-resolution version.Search Google for a better version: If you come across a version of an image on Facebook that already looks compressed to hell, try a Google Image Search to see if you can find a less crappy version. You can either link out to that one, or at least upload one that hasn't been compressed quite as much.Use the Share button: If you find a photo on Facebook and it has a Share button, use it instead of re-uploading the photo. This will share the version Facebook has already uploaded. Even if it has already been compressed a bit, you can at least avoid compressing it even more.

As long as you're uploading photos to Facebook, you're always going to get hit with at least a little compression. However, not everything has to be uploaded to Facebook, and even when they are, it's usually pretty easy to find a better version of the picture somewhere else.

Avoid Bad Habits That Ruin Pictures

There are some habits that, while technically possible, shouldn't be encouraged (like vertical videos). Similarly, there are some things you should avoid when sharing photos to Facebook to prevent ugly, compressed images:

Don't download and re-upload from Facebook: If an image is already on Facebook, try not to download and then re-upload it to Facebook. Once may be fine, but everyone doing this over and over is like the telephone game for images. Except instead of getting a hilariously misinterpreted message at the end, you just have a garbled, gross mess of a picture. Instead, download the original, or share the existing one using the Share button.Don't share photos by taking screenshots on your phone: Unless the thing you're sharing originated on your phone, it's probably not a great idea to share something by taking a screenshot of it and posting the screenshot to Facebook. Not only will it get compressed, but it looks tacky.Don't take low-res screenshots of high-res images: Taking screenshots on a computer can be a handy way to share an image. If you're going to do it, though, at least try to get the highest quality you can. If you're taking a screenshot of text, zoom in a bit. If you're screenshotting a frame from a video, switch to the highest quality setting first. Remember, the bigger the better.

Most of this will have a dramatic effect on the quality of the images you share to begin with. However, some of these tips are also little courtesies that can make the internet look a bit less crap for everyone. Sure, downloading and re-uploading to Facebook once may not hurt, but if no one did it, we'd have fewer pictures that look like this on our feeds.

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How to Maximize Battery Life on Windows 10 [feedly]

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How to Maximize Battery Life on Windows 10
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Whether you've upgraded to Windows 10 on your laptop or bought a brand new machine, you're going to want to eke out as much battery juice as you can while you're on the go. Microsoft's shiny new OS includes a new native battery saver feature — and there are a few other tricks you can pull to make sure your laptop lasts until you can find a power socket.

The Windows 10 Battery Saver

Let's start with the obvious one: The new Battery saver tool baked right into Windows 10 itself. From the Settings app choose System and then Battery saver to find it—it's set to kick in when you're down to 20 percent of battery life but you can change this level if you want, or turn it on manually at any time.

The same screen gives you an estimate of how long you've got left before your laptop or tablet dies (or how much time is left until you'll reach a full charge). You can also make certain apps exempt from the Battery saver rules and check which apps are the worst offenders when it comes to draining power.

Check Your Power Plan

The old reliable battery-saving method for those that know their way around Microsoft's operating system, the Windows 10 power plan interface is available through Power & sleep under System in Settings. The lower these screen and sleep times are, the more battery life you're going to save between charges.

Click or tap Additional power settings to get to the Control Panel power plan interface used by previous versions of Windows. Here it's possible to set up a bunch of additional variables—like when the hard drive and your peripheral devices go to sleep—and configure several individual power plans that you can switch between as required. Screen brightness can be adjusted from here as well.

Wifi, Bluetooth and Other Settings

Most people with a smartphone know you can turn off wifi and Bluetooth to save some juice, and it's the same in Windows 10 (this is assuming you don't need the internet or can get it via a plugged-in cable). The easiest way to switch both off at the same time is via the Airplane mode (or Flight mode) pane under Network & internet in Settings.

The screen brightness is another setting that's familiar to anyone who's ever tried to get the last drips of battery life out of a device: In Windows 10 you can find it under Display in the System section of Settings. Turn off the auto-adjust option to prevent Windows from overruling your tweaks.

Update Windows While Charging

You don't get much control over Windows updates in the latest version of the OS, but based on our testing the process of downloading and installing them has a significant impact on battery life—try leaving your computer on for a few hours (or overnight) before you head out. The previously managed airplane mode can temporarily pause updates if required.

Updates for your peripherals and internal components are worth mentioning too: Check through the websites of the relevant manufacturers to see if any Windows 10 updates are available, as they'll often improve efficiency, reduce power drain and increase battery life on your Windows 10 device.

Turn Down the Volume

The volume of your laptop (or tablet) has more of an impact on battery life than you might think—pumping out those tunes uses a substantial amount of energy. Try turning down the volume while watching videos and listening to music, or switch to headphones if you can; ideally, mute your device completely.

The master volume control and several of the other settings we've mentioned so far can be accessed through the Windows Mobility Center, still present and correct in Windows 10. Just run a search from the taskbar for "mobility center" and click on the first result that appears to bring it up on screen.

Unplug Unnecessary Peripherals

Microsoft itself recommends unplugging any peripherals you aren't using if you want to save battery power, so ditch those external hard drives, inkjet printers, memory sticks and USB-powered mug warmers until you can get to a charging point. Even having a memory card inserted in your laptop can drain a tiny bit of extra power.

If you're using an external mouse, for example, you could switch to trackpad or touchscreen input to save some battery juice. Even if your Windows 10 experience suffers as a result, you have the consolation of getting more life from your laptop or tablet while you're away from a power connection.

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Destroying 2000 bullets is like popping the most explosive popcorn [feedly]

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Destroying 2000 bullets is like popping the most explosive popcorn
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Destroy all the bullets. But since we can't do that because the sanctity of America rests on people's ability to shoot things, destroy some bullets. Like these 2000 bullets that are probably passed their lifetime! Turns out, bullets make for some crazy works of fire. It's basically explosive popcorn.

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4 Tips for a More Secure Lock Screen [feedly]

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4 Tips for a More Secure Lock Screen
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The lock screen on your phone and tablet is all that stands in the way of an unwanted visitor and everything in your digital life, so best be sure there are as few chinks in the armor as possible. Here are the settings on the latest versions of Android and iOS to be aware of if you want to make sure your lock screen is in lockdown mode.

Choose a Longer PIN or Pattern

You obviously have a PIN code or pattern protecting your device, right? But there's bad news: Your PIN or pattern of choice probably isn't as secure as you think it is. On Android, choose a more unpredictable pattern or create a longer PIN (up to 16 digits) and your chances of staying protected are much better.

On iOS you can go beyond the standard four-digit PIN by going into General and Touch ID & Passcode from Settings and then disabling the Simple Passcode option—this lets you enter a longer, alphanumeric PIN. For the most complete security, activate Touch ID if you can (native fingerprint sensing tech is coming to Android Marshmallow too).

Set a Shorter Timeout

Whatever type of device you're using, there's going to be a timeout period before the lock screen is activated, and the shorter this is the more secure your phone or tablet (even if it's a pain to have to enter your PIN code more often—you've always wanted to cut down on the number of times you check your mobile, haven't you?).

On Android the relevant setting is under Display in Settings; via the Security menu you can also set how quickly the lock screen activates after the timeout period and require a PIN after a reboot (on Lollipop). On iOS, you go to the Settings app and open up the Auto-Lock menu on the General page.

Disable Siri on the Lock Screen

If you're using an iPhone or an iPad then you can get at Siri from the lock screen, pulling up weather reports, making calls, displaying your calendar and so on... and if you can do it, then so can anyone else who happens across your device and picks it up, without going through the process of unlocking it.

It's not a disaster if someone else gets access to Siri but you might want to switch it off nevertheless: From the Touch ID & Passcode entry in the Settings app, you'll see there are a list of features that iOS allows access to when the device is unlocked—toggle the Siri switch to off as well as applying any other blocks you want to make (like the Notifications View).

Hide Sensitive Notifications

There's no Siri on Android but you do have notification previews on the lock screen in Android 5.0 Lollipop—the idea is you can quickly take a glance at what's happening and who's trying to reach you without having to unlock your phone. However, you might not necessarily want this information visible to the wider world.

From the Sound & notification heading in Settings, tap When device is locked and then tap Hide sensitive notification content to turn off most of the previews. If you want to take more control over what's considered sensitive and what isn't, choose the App notifications entry directly underneath.

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This Is The Army And USMC's Humvee Replacement [feedly]

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This Is The Army And USMC's Humvee Replacement
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The almost decade long saga of picking a replacement for the venerable but ultra antiquated Humvee for many roles has come to a close. In the final phase of competition, Lockheed Martin, AM General and Oshkosh Defense put forward 22 prototypes apiece to be rigorously tested. After over a year of poking, prodding, speeding, skidding, sliding and exploding, Oshkosh has been selected as the winner of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) contract.

The contenders: AM General, Oshkosh Defense and Lockheed Martin JLTV designs

As the winner of what could very well be tens of billions of dollars in orders spread out of decades, Oshkosh Defense will start low-rate initial production (LRIP) of 17,000 vehicles in 2016. The price of this initial production run will be $6.7 billion dollars, but that is just the start. In all, the JLTV program is estimated to be worth $30 billion dollars through the coming decades, with an estimated 54,600 vehicles being produced in total. As of now this tentative number is broken down to 5,500 for the USMC and the 49,100 for the Army, although many more could follow, with production likely extending into the middle of the century.

The Oshkosh's JLTV competitor brings together the blast absorbing capability of the lumbering Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles that became staples of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the agility of a high performance off-road combat truck that can be easily adapted to different missions. Additionaly, the JLTV has to be transportable to the forward edges of the battlefield via the cargo hold of a C-130 or underslung beneath a CH-47 or CH-53. They also have to be easily serviced once there.

John Urias, president of Oshkosh Defense, said described the vehicle in a following statement to the Washington Post:

"Our JLTV has been extensively tested and is proven to provide the ballistic protection of a light tank, the underbody protection of an MRAP-class vehicle, and the off-road mobility of a Baja racer."


The Army's JLTV decision will almost certainly be formally protested by Lockheed Martin and AM General which could drag the program's timeline down in the near term. Still, the decision today marks a final departure from the Humvee, of which some 280,000 have been built since going into production in 1984.

You can read all about the Oshkosh's JLTV in this brochure or at their site.

Photos via Oshkosh Defense, composite photo via US Army.

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Truck gets obliterated when it runs into the bottom of a bridge [feedly]

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Truck gets obliterated when it runs into the bottom of a bridge
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Yeesh! The East Street train bridge in the small town of Westwood, Massachusetts is becoming notorious for ripping off the roofs of trucks that are too tall to pass through it. The destruction is actually pretty impressive to see, I mean, a big ass truck basically gets flipped sideways while everything gets torn apart like a bag of trash.

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This dual cannon machine gun that shoots fireworks is so much bad ass fun [feedly]

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This dual cannon machine gun that shoots fireworks is so much bad ass fun
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You probably thought you had a nice summer. Maybe you got a little bit of color, maybe you sunk your toes into some sand, maybe you had a drink with an umbrella in it. But no, your summer was not that fun. Because when you see this crazy guy shoot Roman Candle fireworks with dual machine guns, nothing can be as fun as that.

That guy's, YouTube user iZHarms, summer was the best. His dual machine gun set up is just like those giant mechs in that last Matrix movie. So bad ass.

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Watch Sony's Drone Prototype Take Flight [feedly]

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Aerosense, Sony's new drone business, just released video of its drone prototype flying, and it's so cool I kind of wish I had the ability to Honey I Shrunk the Kids myself so I could fit inside it.

Now, obviously, this isn't the most original drone design in the world. Sony partnered with an autopilot startup called ZMP to form Aerosense, and the new company didn't exactly go reinventing the aircraft: It looks like a miniature airplane.

A beautiful miniature airplane.

It can fly for up to two hours, maxing out at 106 miles an hour. Take-offs and landings are vertical, and look at it go!

The drones can carry up to 22 pounds of cargo, but this isn't a bid to compete against Amazon and Google as they race to create delivery drones. Aerosense's majestic baby aircraft are meant for aerial infrastructure and land surveys, not to replace your pizza guy. Unfortunately, that means these drones will only be used to service business customers, so you'll have to look elsewhere if you want to fly something like it.

Even more unfortunately, no one has invented a shrinking potion, so none of us can joyride this bugger.

[Wall Street Journal]

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Fork-mounted sauce syringe delivers heat to each bite [feedly]

Fork-mounted sauce syringe delivers heat to each bite
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Wiener Rover, an all-terrain hot-dog-delivery machine, knows no fear [feedly]

the original Oscar Mayer hot dog mobile was in the Henry For Museum about 8 years ago


Wiener Rover, an all-terrain hot-dog-delivery machine, knows no fear
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Still Don't Own a Dashcam? This One's Only $40 Today. [feedly]

I made my own by buying this adjustable tripod https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O7TPNBG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and hanging my cell phone from my rear view mirror.

Still Don't Own a Dashcam? This One's Only $40 Today.
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Contactless Payment Cards are Perhaps Not as Secure as You Hoped [feedly]

Contactless Payment Cards are Perhaps Not as Secure as You Hoped
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Samsung's Galaxy Tab S2 is a beautiful tablet that comes in two sizes (pictures) [feedly]

Samsung's Galaxy Tab S2 is a beautiful tablet that comes in two sizes (pictures)
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Acer Launches Liquid Leap+ Fitness Tracker in the U.S. [feedly]

Acer Launches Liquid Leap+ Fitness Tracker in the U.S.
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A Silicone Strap Turns Your Phone's Camera Flash Into a Bedside Lamp [feedly]

A Silicone Strap Turns Your Phone's Camera Flash Into a Bedside Lamp
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The 8 Biggest Disasters in U.S. Military History [feedly]

The 8 Biggest Disasters in U.S. Military History
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YouTube Is Making Vertical Video Less Awful Because Humans Never Learn [feedly]

YouTube Is Making Vertical Video Less Awful Because Humans Never Learn
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Do Computers Die Of Old Age? [feedly]

Do Computers Die Of Old Age?
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8 Government Instagram Accounts You Should Definitely Follow [feedly]

8 Government Instagram Accounts You Should Definitely Follow
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Dragons: Zoology, Culture, and More [feedly]

Dragons: Zoology, Culture, and More
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How to navigate the many uses of the Volume and Side Switch buttons on the iPad [feedly]

How to navigate the many uses of the Volume and Side Switch buttons on the iPad
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Monday, August 17, 2015

This Tiny iPhone Charger Has 128GB of Extra Storage Built Right In [feedly]

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This Tiny iPhone Charger Has 128GB of Extra Storage Built Right In
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Leaving home without your smartphone's charging cable is as disastrous as forgetting the device itself. That's why ultra-compact charging cables are suddenly so popular, and with 128GB of extra storage onboard, PhotoFast's new MemoriesCable might be the only one iPhone users will want to consider.

The iPhone and iPad are notorious for their lack of expandable storage; there's no microSD card slot, and no support for USB OTG allowing you to natively access media from a connected flash drive. But recent versions of iOS do allow third party apps to read and write media to portable drives connected to either device's Lightning port, which is how PhotoFast's new MemoriesCable can give your iPad or iPhone an extra 128GB of capacity.

The one big catch is that you have to rely on the aforementioned third party app to watch movies, listen to music, or backup photos. And while PhotoFast offers that requisite app as a free download, it might not be quite as polished as the rest of iOS. But if you can live with a few UI quirks, the occasional random crash, and listening to music outside of iTunes, the MemoriesCable seems like a great choice because it also doubles as an emergency charging and sync cable.

You can use the MemoriesCable just like the USB cable that came with your iPhone or iPad, except that it's only five inches long, which might mean a few limitations of where you can plug in. But when your phone is down to five percent battery, any source of power, no matter how inconvenient, is a lifesaver. Pricing details haven't been revealed just yet, but the PhotoFast MemoriesCable will also be available in a cheaper 64GB version, in addition to the 128GB option.

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How to Protect Your Android Phone Before You Lend It Out [feedly]

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How to Protect Your Android Phone Before You Lend It Out
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Your nephew wants to play Boom Beach, or your best friend needs to use Facebook, or a stranger in the street needs to make a phone call. How do you make sure your Android handset is going to come back in one piece?

Android Lollipop includes a couple of useful features to keep your device protected, and here's how to use them.

Guest mode

First up is guest mode, which works exactly as you might expect if you've ever used a similar feature on your desktop software of choice. It essentially creates a new user account for your friend or relative, kept separate from the apps you've installed and the settings you've customized on your own account.

Drag down from the top of the screen with two fingers, tap your avatar (top right), then choose Guest (or Add guest if you haven't yet set it up). Guest mode shows Lollipop in its factory fresh state, from apps to keyboard tones, and internet access is available if required. Apps like Gmail and the Play Store can be used, if your guest enters his or her Google credentials.

The SMS app is blocked and you can block calls too (via Settings, Users in your own account). What's more, there's no access to the Backup & reset menu. Guest mode is great for people you largely trust who want to browse the web, play games, check social media and so on, without interfering with any of the accounts or preferences you've set up on your phone.

Screen Pinning

Screen pinning keeps your friend, relative or random stranger stuck inside one app—there's no way to escape it without the PIN code. So if your niece wants to play a game or your pal wants to check something on the web it's the perfect solution, and quicker to set up than guest mode.

First, make sure you do have a PIN or pattern protecting your device on the Security page of Settings (screen pinning isn't much use without it). From the same menu tap Screen pinning, then toggle the switch to on and enable Ask for PIN before unpinning is enabled.

Launch the app to pin, then head to the overview screen (via the square soft key). Drag the front app up to the middle of the screen, tap the pin icon in the lower right corner, and that's it—your app is pinned. To quit it, press the Back and Overview keys together, then enter your PIN. The person with your phone can turn it off, but again they'll be met with the PIN prompt.

It means some extra inconvenience before you pass your device over, but it's worth it for the extra peace of mind you get as a result.

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Ford's New Headlights Spot and Turn to Illuminate Hazards at Night [feedly]

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Ford's New Headlights Spot and Turn to Illuminate Hazards at Night
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Self-driving smart cars might still be years away, but the technology that makes them so smart is already benefitting drivers. Ford is currently perfecting a headlight system that uses infra-red cameras to illuminate unexpected curves and hazards on the road ahead that might be invisible to drivers otherwise.

Developed at the company's Research and Innovation Centre in Aachen, Germany, Ford's Camera-Based Advanced Front Lighting System actually uses a handful of clever tricks to illuminate the road ahead exactly where it's most needed for a driver. When GPS and mapping data are available, the system will ensure that the headlights—which include an extra pair of spotlights that can be pivoted left and right—are pointed in the direction of an oncoming bend in the road, or used to better illuminate dips that might otherwise go unseen until the vehicle hits them.

But when GPS data isn't available, the new headlight system also features an infra-red camera that serves as an extra pair of night vision eyes. Not only can the cameras spot hazards like pedestrians on the side of the road and automatically turn the spotlights to illuminate them, they can also recognize lane markings and signage that indicate when the road ahead is about to curve left or right.

Do the new lighting improvements, which Ford promises will be "...available for customers in the near term" mean that drivers won't have to pay attention to the road as much? Not at all, in fact, it's just the opposite. The improved headlights will give drivers even more things to be aware of when driving at night, which in turn will hopefully make them even safer motorists.

[Ford via Car and Driver]

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Watch The USS Little Rock Take The Plunge Of Her Life [feedly]

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Watch The USS Little Rock Take The Plunge Of Her Life
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Lockheed Martin officially launched the Navy's 9th Littoral Combat Ship, the USS Little Rock (LCS-9). The almost violent side-launching affair took place yesterday at Marinette Marine's ship-building facility along the Menominee River in Wisconsin. The occasion included all the typical ship launching fanfare, including broken bottles of champagne and politician's speeches.http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/pentagon-decid...

The name USS Little Rock is fairly well known in naval circles. Its predecessor, the USS Little Rock (CL-92), was a valiant ship with multiple lives. It was born a light cruiser towards the end of WWII and then decommissioned in 1949. It was later brought back into service and converted into a guided missile cruiser in 1960, after which the Little Rock served till 1976, often times as the Sixth Fleet Flagship. Today, that USS Little Rock is a museum ship in Buffalo. You can bet that there is a meeting of the Little Rocks of old and of new in the works.

The LCS-9 still has the better part of a year's work left to be done and testing to complete before she becomes an active player for the U.S. Navy, at which time she will be deployed for long periods to Singapore. Eventually, four Littoral Combat Ships will be continuously deployed there as part of the Department of Defense's "pivot toward the Pacific" and to monitor and attempt to counter balance China's growing claims on the South China Sea.http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/look-how-quick...

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Boost Your Phone's Storage With SanDisk Wireless Flash Drive [feedly]

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Boost Your Phone's Storage With SanDisk Wireless Flash Drive
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The SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick could come in handy if you have limited storage on your phone.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

"Spot" Is a Smaller (More Kickable) Version of Boston Dynamic's Big Dog [feedly]

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"Spot" Is a Smaller (More Kickable) Version of Boston Dynamic's Big Dog
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We haven't seen much of Boston Dynamic's four-legged self-balancing Big Dog robot since it was last spotted hurling cinder blocks in a lab. And that's maybe because the company's robotic geniuses have been hard at work building a smaller more agile version called Spot that weighs just 160 pounds so it can safely operate both indoors and out.

Powered by an electric motor that keeps a series of hydraulic actuators moving, Spot also features built-in sensors allowing it to automatically navigate difficult terrain. And because Spot is significantly smaller and lighter than Big Dog, it's able to jog along at an impressive pace. It doesn't look like it would be able to carry as much gear and equipment as Big Dog, which is why the quadruped was originally built. But that's probably because Boston Dynamics has built it for different purposes, like search and rescue or scouting, instead of just back-breaking labor.

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Clean Out All Your Old Text Messages on iOS and Android [feedly]

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Clean Out All Your Old Text Messages on iOS and Android
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Those long-winded SMS/iMessage/Hangouts conversations filled with emoticons and pictures and GIFs aren't doing the storage space on your smartphone any favors. And the clutter in your messaging app isn't too much fun either. Fortunately, you can get your iOS or Android-powered mobile to erase older messages automatically. Here are the settings to use if you can live without your text history.

Before you get started you might want to review some of the most important conversations in your messaging app to make sure there's nothing you want to keep hold of. Any declarations of true love? Or, more likely, important addresses that you haven't written down yet? If you're looking for something that can back up your messages somewhere else, there are a few options to pick from.

After that it's deletion time. In iOS, open the Settings app then tap Messages and Keep Messages to choose from 30 days, one year or forever. This is a new feature introduced with iOS 8 and can be particularly helpful if you've activated iMessage, complete with its more advanced media capabilities. Any messages older than the stated timeframe are purged, no questions asked.

Over on Hangouts in Android, head to the Settings screen and choose SMS. Check the box marked Delete old messages and the app automatically clears out the oldest texts when necessary; there's no option to set a limit as there was in earlier versions of the default Android texting app, and there's no such option in the new Messenger tool from Google (somewhat strangely). You just sort of have to trust it. Of course, as this is Android so you can install another, more feature-rich SMS app if you want to take more control over how older messages are handled if you really, really want to.

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The Apple Watch Will Bring Glucose Tracking to Your Wrist [feedly]

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The Apple Watch Will Bring Glucose Tracking to Your Wrist
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With Apple Watch quickly approaching its April release month, app developers are giving us a better sense of the wearable's capabilities than the designers at Cupertino. For instance, we know how the watch will work with your car or draw up a to do list. Now its health merits are getting some attention.

With help from DexCom, a company that makes monitors for diabetics, the Apple Watch will be one of the first wearables to bring glucose tracking to your wrist. The Apple Watch itself will only act as a display for the information being pumped out every five minutes by DexCom's continuous glucose monitor or CGM, a hair-thin sensor embedded under the skin.

DexCom teased its intentions to bring glucose monitoring to the Apple Watch at CES 2015, as pictured below with the company's current iPhone app. Diatribe, who originally reported the CES news, also says that DexCom's new CGM will also integrate with Apple's Healthkit platform, which until now has largely been associated with fitness apps. Doctors may also benefit from the partnership as Apple's Healthkit adoption rate in hospitals is outpacing Google Fit and Samsung's S Health.

The Apple Watch isn't the first smartwatch to bring CGM monitoring to a wrist wearable. The Nightscout CGM system, which is an open source project that allows remote access to DexCom sensors, has already developed an app for Pebble. It's been hoped since the Apple Watch was announced that the wearable would follow in Pebble's footsteps, and that seems to be what's happening.

Last summer Reuters reported that Samsung, Apple, and Google are all investigating how to incorporate glucose monitoring into wearables. The one hurdle being that any device marketed for diabetics would fall under the Food and Drug Administrations stringent regulations on Class III medical devices. The CGM sensor in this case is still considered a Class III device, but because of a recent rule change, any apps or software associated with the wearable device only needs to be registered with the FDA, meaning DexCom's Apple Watch app can bypass the agency's tortoise-speed approval process and be ready to go when the wearable ships in April, according to The Wall Street Journal.

So it seems the FDA's relaxed regulations on diabetes software has given developers some room to work, and they're taking advantage. [The Wall Street Journal]

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Seeing a GoPro video of a roller coaster might be scarier than riding it [feedly]

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Seeing a GoPro video of a roller coaster might be scarier than riding it
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Somehow, it's almost scarier to watch a GoPro video of a roller coaster than to ride the roller coaster itself in real life. I don't know why that works but it's like you get none of the thrills and all of the fear when you see the first person point of view, it's just terrifying dizziness mixed with a constant sinking feeling of plummeting to the ground.

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Here Is a Magnificent Feathered Dinosaur [feedly]

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Here Is a Magnificent Feathered Dinosaur
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Complain all you want about how scientifically-accurate pictures of dinosaurs with feathers aren't as cool as the fake bald dinos in Jurassic Park. This image of a feathered tyrannosaur by Chris Masna makes the great beast of the Cretaceous look awe-inspiring.

Masna is an artist in Argentina, and he's working on an incredible-looking videogame called Saurian. You can see more of his work on his Deviant Art page. [via FuckYeahDinosaurArt]

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